The City of Gardner is located in North Central Massachusetts. It is governed by a Mayor and City Council. Gardner is celebrating its 240th birthday in 2025. Gardner Magazine Publisher Werner Poegel interviewed Gardner Mayor Michael Nicholson on July 1, 2025 and July 17, 2025 about the last 5 years. The complete July 1st interview is posted on the top menu with those segments and additional individual segments provided throughout.
We call this project undertaken by Gardner Magazine, “The Fiscal 6 Project.” The focus is to document why Gardner got to where it is after 5 years of unprecedented positive change.
It’s sort of a “look under the hood” and on ongoing documentary about Gardner, which we have called the “Model City for America” The project is a “living website” featuring a series of interviews with Gardner Mayor Nicholson about very specific subjects and relevant embedded videos.
Here are the topics covered: Aesthetic Improvements, Background and Approach, Basic City Services, Blighted or Private Properties, Blighted or Unused City Properties, Business Vacancies, City Employees, City Transparency, Downtown Revitalization, Education Facilities, Education Improvements, Elder Support, Environment and Energy, Endorsements and Recognition, Fiscal Responsibility, Health-Related, Housing and Real Estate, Industrial Space, Infrastructure Improvements, Internet and Connectivity, Legal Updates for the City, Non-Profits in Gardner, Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Parking in Gardner, Patriotism and Ceremony, People are Policy, Promoting the City, Public Safety, Public Transportation, Recreation and Open Space, Roads and Infrastructure, Veterans Services, and Water & Sewer.
